Atmospheric Muons Measured with IceCube

Understand

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov detector in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole.

• The dominant event yield is produced by penetrating atmospheric muons with energies above several 100 GeV.
• Due to its large detector volume, IceCube provides unique opportunities to study atmospheric muons with large statistics in detail.
• Measurements of the energy spectrum and the lateral separation distribution of muons offer insights into hadronic interactions during the air shower development and can be used to test hadronic models.